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Highdown Gardens

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United Kingdom - West Sussex - Worthing

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BGCI Member: Yes

About the Highdown Gardens

A plantsman's garden on the chalk soils of the UK's South Downs. The garden is home to the National Collection of the plants of Sir Frederick Stern (1884 - 1967), botanist, collector, enthusiast and writer. The collection is valuable due to a mixture of rarity and heritage. After the death of Sir Frederick the garden was bequeathed to Worthing Borough Council and is now the recipient of Heritage Lottery funding, fuelling a project to assess, protect and propagate the collection.

Main Address:
Highdown Gardens
Highdown Rise, Littlehampton Road, Goring-by-
Worthing
West Sussex BN12 6FB United Kingdom

Telephone: 07385468423
Fax:
URL: https://www.highdowngardens.co.uk
Primary Email: highdown.gardens@adur-worthing.gov.uk

Staff Details

  • Director's Name: Gwenn Parker-Tregoat
    Curator's Name:
    Plant Records Officer's Name: Alex New
  • Total Staff:
    Horticultural Staff Number: 5
    Educational Staff Number: 1
    Research Staff Number: 1
    Administration Staff Number: 1

About the Garden

  • Institution Type: Botanic Garden
  • Status
  • Status: Private: No
    Status: State: No
    Status: Educational: Yes
    Status: Municipal: No
    Status: Satellite: No
    Status: Trust: Yes
  • Date founded: 1909
  • Physical Data
  • Natural Vegetation Area: No
  • Landscaped Area: Yes
    Landscaped Area: Size: 3 Hectares
  • Total Area: 3 Hectares
    Latitude: 50.8263554
    Longitude: -0.4438537
    Altitude: 50.00 Metres

Features and Facilities

  • Herbarium: No
    Arboretum: No
  • Micropropagation/ Tissue Culture Facilities: No
    Seed Bank: No
    Published Plant Catalogue: No
    Computer Plant Record System: Yes
  • Open to public: Yes
    Friends society: Yes
    Retail Outlet: Shop: No
    Retail Outlet: Plant Sales: No
    Disabled access: Yes
  • Number of Volunteers: 35

Plant Collections

  • Accession Number: 337
    Cultivation Taxa Num: 242
  • Invasive Species Monitoring: Yes
    Invasive Species Policy: No
    ABS Policy: No
    Plant Collection Policy: No

Conservation Programmes

  • Conservation Programme: Yes
    Medicinal Plant Programme: No
    Ex Situ Conservation Programme: No
    Reintroduction Programme: Yes

Research Programmes

  • Biotechnology: No
    Plant Breeding: No
    Conservation - Biology: No
    Conservation - Genetics: No
    Data Management Systems and Information Technology: No
    Ecology: No
    Ecosystem Conservation: No
    Education: No
    Ethnobotany: No
    Exploration: No
    Floristics: No
    Horticulture: Yes
    Invasive Species Biology and Control: No
    Molecular Genetics: No
    Pollination Biology: No
    Restoration Ecology: No
    Seed/Spore Biology: No
    Systematics and Taxonomy: Yes
    Sustainability: No
    Pharmacology: No
    Agriculture: No
    Land Restoration: No
    Urban Environments: No

Education Programmes

  • Visitor/Education Centre: Yes
    Education Signs in Garden: Yes
    Public Lectures/Talks: Yes
    Education Booklets/Leaflets: Yes
    Guided Tours: Yes
    Permanent Public Displays: Yes
    Special Exhibitions: Yes
    Courses for School Children: No
    Courses for University/College Students: No
    Courses for General Public: Yes
    Education Programme: Yes